RE: Blockbusting news, results are in

[Mudama, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Reiser [mailto:reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 2:25 AM
> To: Norman Diamond
> Cc: Mudama, Eric; 'Wes Janzen '; 'Rogier Wolff '; 'John Bradford ';
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; nikita@xxxxxxxxxxx; 'Pavel Machek ';
> 'Justin Cormack '; 'Russell King '; 'Vitaly Fertman '; 
> 'Krzysztof Halasa
> '
> Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in
> 
> 
> Norman Diamond wrote:
> 
> >
> >>What would you like "us disk makers" to say?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >How to force reallocations even when data are lost, 
> >
> buy Maxtor and write to them, thereby triggering the remap.

It isn't necessarilly that simple.  However, if the drive is still alive, it
has written your data to a place where it can get at it again.  
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